CHAPTER VII 



GARDEN SEATS 



The ever-changing tide of fashion brings in its 

 wake a constant development of new and original 

 ideas in the furnishing of our garden plots. Flow- 

 ers have been with us ever since the first settlement 

 of our country and so has a love for life in the 

 open. This is an inheritance that has deepened 

 with the passing years. So rapidly has this de- 

 veloped that to-day it demands our gardens as liv- 

 ing rooms. It is this aspect of garden life that de- 

 velops new and unusual features in equipment. 



While we may flatter ourselves that we as gar- 

 den lovers have originated this idea, yet it is of 

 ancient origin. History relates that in the gar- 

 dens of the early Romans and Grreeks, garden seats 

 were found. "With the changing of styles in floral- 

 culture the ornate came into existence, much used 

 during the Italian Renaissance. Reproductions of 

 their ideas are found in replica in many of the for- 

 mal gardens of the twentieth century. 



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